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| [[File:malachi.jpg|center|thumb|Malachi, a Levite "messenger of YHWH". Chapter 2 is a message to the priests to do [[Religion|their duty]] according to the Character or [[name]] of God.]]
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| '''Comments'''
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| Great [[Synagogue]] with events recorded in Nehemiah 8–10 had become a legislature imposing rule through their enactments.Offering became required through force which was a departure from the  [[freewill offerings]] byway of the [[perfect law of liberty]].
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| V2  "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart." See [[wages of unrighteousness]] and [[snare]].
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| The people stumbled at the law against coveting thy neighbor's goods and making covenants with those who do not believe in the right to choose for each individual, choosing rather to sell their birth right respecting one over the other.
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| The state was becoming the [[father]] of the people.
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| Understanding the job of the [[priests]] and the nature of the [[altars]] is critical.
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| They use their priestly garments to cover or justify the use of [[force]] which pollutes their offerings and makes their [[benefits]] the [[wages of unrighteousness]].
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| The people were accepting the way of [[Balaam]] and the [[Nicolaitan]]s and were becoming [[workers of iniquity]].
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| Their [[sacrifices]] were again like the [[Corban]] of the [[pharisees]] and weremaking the word of God to none effect.
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| This [[force]]d [[sacrifice]] "torn" from the people was without [[mercy]] on ''weak'' and would rob the ''widows and orphans'' and would not bear [[fruit]].
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| It is the [[Sin of Sodom]] that failed to strengthen the poor.
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| [https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/mal/2/1/s_927001]
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== The Lord Rebukes the Priests  ==


1 And now, O ye [[priests]], this commandment is for you.
2 
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my [[name]]<Ref name="myname">{{myname}}</Ref>, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse<Ref>{{0779}}</Ref> upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.<Ref>{{03820}}</Ref>
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Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
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And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
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My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my [[name]].
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The law<Ref name="torat"> We see this form of ''[[Torah#The_Law_of_faith|Torat]]'' translated ''law'' in the sense of a [[sacrifice]] in true [[faith]] rather than the [[force]] used by [[Pharaoh]], [[Nimrod]], and the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] and of course their modern counter parts [[FDR]] and [[LBJ]] accepted by the [[Modern Church]] excusing their [[covetous practices]]. </Ref> of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity<Ref>{{05766}}</Ref> was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from [[iniquity]].<Ref>{{05771}}</Ref>
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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
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But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

== Judah Profaned the Covenant ==

10 
Have we not all one [[father]]? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
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Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in [[Israel]] and in [[Jerusalem]]; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange [[gods|god]].
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The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth<Ref name="nagash">{{05066}}</Ref> an offering<Ref name="minchah">{{04503}}</Ref> unto the LORD of hosts.
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And this have ye done again, covering the altar<Ref name="altar">{{04196}}</Ref> of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering<Ref name="minchah"></Ref> any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
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Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously:<Ref>{{0898}}</Ref> yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
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And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
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For the LORD, the God of [[Israel]], saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence<Ref name="violence">{{02555}}</Ref> with his garment<Ref>{{03830}}</Ref>, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.<Ref name="treacherous">{{0898}}</Ref>


== The Messenger of the Lord ==

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Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil<Ref>{{07451}}</Ref> is good<Ref>{{02896}}</Ref> in the sight of the LORD,<Ref>[[Isaiah 5]]:20  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21  Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22  Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23  Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the [[righteousness]] of the righteous from him!</Ref> and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

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